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The story centers around Saki Miyanaga, a timid freshman girl who has never enjoyed the Asian tile game of mahjong. However, another freshman brings her into their high school's mahjong club and into the competitive world of mahjong tournaments.

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Originally Posted by manga updates

Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who doesn’t like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year’s gift money during her family mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost.

As a result, she’s learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she’s being dragged to her school’s mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, survive in this environment?

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I haven't seen Hikaru no Go, so not sure about that... but it's obviously focusing on tournaments...

Square Enix has a preview of the manga up on their site if you want to see for yourself how direction may be played out, and of course there are scanlations available as well...

Starting with the director, Manabu Ono, I don't want to see another trainwreck in the form of Dragonaut (I struggled through that show and it was such a painful experience). I wonder if he learned from the mess he did--from beginning to end, it was just bad.

The script is going to be done by Tatsuhiko Urahata and looking at the work he has so far done, the only downside I see is what he did on Strawberry Panic!, show whose script I did not feel very happy about. But he has been involved in some episodes of ARIA ~ The Origination (2, 5) and in the Series Composition of Monster. Well, not sure of what to expect...

I think they picked the "right person" for the sound direction, since Yota Tsuruoka seems to be someone with a vast experience--especially in regards to what I saw in ef~ tales of memories...

The 3D animation is going to be done by Sanzigen. What is that supposed to mean? Gonzo is relying on Sanzigen to do its awful 3D animation, or that Gonzo is not going to be involved in the 3D animation, and instead, it will leave it up to Sanzigen... I will definitely prefer the latter...

ok, I'm sounding way too pessimistic, but I can't really help it. On the bright side, I think they picked a strong cast of seiyuus, at least that...

I doubt many readers will get the japanese Mahjong scoring system.
I'm personally used the Honk Kong rules & scoring system.
So it is like "Calling Your Attacks" when they declare their winning hands.

I can only find as far as chapter 10 .

To tell the truth, I was only into this game by playing eroge, and started to like Mahjong . That's why I only know the Japanese scoring system (although I still haven't gotten a good grasp about it).
Still can't find a good place to play Mahjong, since it's not popular (or should I say, almost no one at my place know about it). The downside of this game is you have to have 4 people .

The manga is pretty good for a MJ manga, but lately it seems to have changed directions and gotten abit unrealistic. I can stand Saki's Rinshan, since she doesn't use that all the time, but Koromo's Haitei ability is going abit overboard. I guess I just havn't read a MJ manga that tries to mix these different styles (stratergy + flow of the game + speical powers) together before, so it's abit weird for me.